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astro-ph.IM2020★ 3 cited

Towards a physical understanding of the thermal background in large ground-based telescopes

Leonard Burtscher, Ioannis Politopoulos, Sergio Fernández-Acosta +11

Ground-based thermal-infrared observations have a unique scientific potential, but are also extremely challenging due to the need to accurately subtract the high thermal background…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 11 cited

Design, pointing control, and on-sky performance of the mid-infrared vortex coronagraph for the VLT/NEAR experiment

A. -L. Maire, E. Huby, O. Absil +16

Vortex coronagraphs have been shown to be a promising avenue for high-contrast imaging in the close-in environment of stars at thermal infrared (IR) wavelengths. They are included…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 49 cited

The quantum efficiency and diffractive image artifacts of Si:As IBC mid-IR detector arrays at 5 10 m: Implications for the JWST/MIRI detectors

Andras Gaspar, George H. Rieke, Pierre Guillard +6

Arsenic doped back illuminated blocked impurity band (BIBIB) silicon detectors have advanced near and mid-IR astronomy for over thirty years; they have high quantum efficiency (QE)…

astro-ph.IM2020

Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 1 calibration: from the laboratory to the desert

J. H. Adams, L. Allen, R. Bachman +63

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 1 (EUSO-SPB1) instrument was launched out of Wanaka, New Zealand, by NASA in April, 2017 as a mission of opportun…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 248 cited

The LOFAR Two Meter Sky Survey: Deep Fields, I -- Direction-dependent calibration and imaging

C. Tasse, T. Shimwell, M. J. Hardcastle +29

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is an ideal instrument to conduct deep extragalactic surveys. It has a large field of view and is sensitive to large scale and compact emission. It…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 26 cited

MIRISim: A Simulator for the Mid-Infrared Instrument on JWST

P. D. Klaassen, V. C. Geers, S. M. Beard +18

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has imaging, four coronagraphs and both low and medium resolution spectroscopic modes . Being able to s…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 6 cited

High contrast at small separation -- II. Impact on the dark hole of a realistic optical set-up with two deformable mirrors

M. Beaulieu, P. Martinez, L. Abe +3

Future large space- or ground-based telescopes will offer the resolution and sensitivity to probe the habitable zone of a large sample of nearby stars for exo-Earth imaging. To thi…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 69 cited

Mini-EUSO mission to study Earth UV emissions on board the ISS

S. Bacholle, P. Barrillon, M. Battisti +57

Mini-EUSO is a telescope observing the Earth in the ultraviolet band from the International Space Station. It is a part of the JEM-EUSO program, paving the way to future larger mis…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 85 cited

The LSST DESC DC2 Simulated Sky Survey

LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, Bela Abolfathi, David Alonso +77

We describe the simulated sky survey underlying the second data challenge (DC2) carried out in preparation for analysis of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

Fast algorithms to approximate the position-dependent point spread function responses in radio interferometric wide-field imaging

M. Atemkeng, O. Smirnov, C. Tasse +2

The desire for wide-field of view, large fractional bandwidth, high sensitivity, high spectral and temporal resolution has driven radio interferometry to the point of big data revo…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 52 cited

Deep Generative Models for Galaxy Image Simulations

Francois Lanusse, Rachel Mandelbaum, Siamak Ravanbakhsh +3

Image simulations are essential tools for preparing and validating the analysis of current and future wide-field optical surveys. However, the galaxy models used as the basis for t…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 19 cited

Characterizing the accuracy of ALMA linear-polarization mosaics

Charles L. H. Hull, Paulo C. Cortes, Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec +9

We characterize the accuracy of linear-polarization mosaics made using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). First, we observed the bright, highly linearly polar…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 36 cited

Spacecraft and interplanetary contributions to the magnetic environment on-board LISA Pathfinder

M. Armano, H. Audley, J. Baird +79

LISA Pathfinder (LPF) has been a space-based mission designed to test new technologies that will be required for a gravitational wave observatory in space. Magnetically driven forc…